I'm pretty sure that this is where things are going. Including how to machine the other parts needed to build the gun, using normal metal shop tools. The real thing is, all the gun laws in the world are useless when you can make your own gun with freely available instructions and common machining tools. At that point, you can ban guns all you want, and the criminals will still make / get them.
I have cousins in France, and your assessment is 100% in error. They want what we have in the US, but are unwilling to risk the change from Universal Health Care. We in the US have the best health care facilities and doctors in the world, just not everyone has access to them because of $$.
No, but they don't always get the latest greatest medical developments found in the US either. MRIs still take months to get in Canada, you really want to be on waiting list for everything?
All they need is a judge who doesn't believe in science because they personally "know better."
That works for all sorts of things, doesn't it? Gay Marriage, Snails in canals in California, bugs in trees, owls, global warming.... All we need is one judge to rule them all.
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I would get a UoP (or other) degree if for one thing and one thing only. To check off "College Graduate" off the form, to get by Personnel Department check list to the people actually making the decisions. AND I would tell the interviewer the same, if he asked. However, I'm lucky enough to not had to at this point in time. But I am considering a move up into management and that almost seems like a "must have" regardless of the rest of my skills set.
"If they're idiots, why is it that health care with lots of government involvement has better patient outcomes for lower costs?"
Complete and utter lack of free market would have better care and results at lower costs. Lasik eye surgery is one such micro economic example. The cost is not borne by Insurance and you can have excellent care, at a definitively affordable price in just about any city in the USA. The US health care system is rife with inefficiencies of Insurance and regulation that places like Canada and England don't have. Case in point, Walnuts were just classified a "drug" by the FDA because of healthful benefits proven by professional studies, and you can't advertise those benefits unless you're a drug company.
REAL Food is healthy for you and can cure disease, but you can't advertize it. Health Care industry is screwed.
Attempts at remedy are also not fair. But that doesn't stop a whole bunch of people from trying to fix it, repeatedly, trying to remedy the new "unfairness" that crops up.
When my kids were young, they would cry "That's Not Fair" with the best of them. That all ended, when I took them to the children's cancer ward at the hospital, and said... "Life is not fair, anyone telling you that life should be fair is a liar and a thief. Don't trust anything they say, and watch your wallet".
I have yet to have someone explain to me how "life is fair" economically, politically, or otherwise. ALL the fairness we have is how we treat each other. Outcomes are not certain, and that is not fair. How we react to outcomes, is how you measure a man.
When I sit at a poker table, and I see an sucker (not me), it is boring. Taking money from suckers is not my idea of fun, and poker is a stupid way to let a sucker depart from his cash. No, I'd much rather be the sucker at the poker table, because at least i can learn from the experience.
That phrase is over played and nuanced in ways that most people over playing it don't really understand. When I sit at a table, and I don't see a sucker, I know I'm in good company, even if I am the sucker.
by Idiot, I mean people who want politics involved in heath care decisions, then complain and whine about healthcare being politicized. They are idiots because they want their cake and eat it too. If you want politics involved, you have no right to complain when politics are involved. I don't understand why this isn't clear. Either have politics involved, or don't. But don't complain when you can't have it both ways, they are mutually exclusive. This is a binary choice. I know that plenty of people think they can "nuance" this point, but really that is just naive.
The problem with your premise, is not everything needs be political, and some things should never be politicized. Functioning democracy doesn't need to butt into my personal life on every damn issue, be it (R) right wingers or (D) Left wingers dictating life choices to everyone else.
Government should be involved in privacy protection, but we don't need more laws for protecting privacy. What we need is an informed electorate that understands its rights and demands them from the people that serve them, government or private party. The fact that people can and think it is okay to sell this kind of info is telling that we have a bigger problem than "privacy". We have a problem with basic understanding of how responsible people behave in society.
So, what you're saying is, one of two things. 1) All life is precious and needs to be preserved, being all life is equal, from Bacteria/Virus to Human, and thus we shouldn't kill anything or 2) All life is not precious, some forms are more precious (valuable) than others, and thus we should be able to kill anything not valuable to us.
So which side are you on?
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It already is a political issue, the moment the idiots wanted politics involved in HealthCare. Don't want politics involved, then stop involving politics. This is the full problem of centralizing decision making away from the people.
So, when does life begin? If you're gonna be all "sciency", come up with a definition based on science as to when life begins.
On the otherhand, there is this joke. A priest, a minister and a rabbi are all arguing over when life begins. The Priest declares with certainty in his voice, "Life begins at Conception". The minister quickly chimes in, with equal certainty, "Life begins when the baby is born". The rabbi, quiet for most of the discussion, pips, "You putzes, life begins when the dog has died and the children move out!"
I've been watching a few shows on TV lately, and I can tell you, there is a huge underground economy that is pure cash. People buy and sell things for cash, making sometimes large profits without a single government trace on the transaction. I'm 100% sure these people do not pay the taxes on purchases and income that they should be, all because the transaction is 100% under the table, cash only business.
Actually, I propose a Decimal Shift. Make $.10 (dime, ten cents etc) and make it the new "penny", just by shifting the decimal point over to the left one digit. Have the new coinage set, new paper currency ready, and give people one month to change out all their old coins and dollars bills. Ten Pennies fo the new penny;.
I'm a Libertarian. Parts of me are happy with liberals, part of me is happy with conservatives. Problem is, nobody is checking the liberals abuses of Liberties, because they (Media) are all in the tank for the (D) party, save for Faux Snews. BTW, I don't watch Fox, or any MSM news. I prefer my news raw, unedited, before bias is applied.
Joomla is fine for smallish sites. 6000 people in a community is smallish. Drupal is powerful sure enough, but I've found that power also includes (unwanted) complexity. I didn't recommend Wordpress, because I don't really count that as a CMS, though it has CMSy features.
I've used Joomla, WebGUI, Drupal, Wordpress, and even a few Forum (old school) systems as a "website" framework. Each has advantages.
You mean, in the late 40's and early 50s after we destroyed the industrial base of Europe and Japan? You criticize me for using "recent past", I'll criticize you for using "not so recent past". Ideology is how you see the world.
Of course, even Kennedy knew that lowering taxes was good for the economy. But by today's standard, you'd call him a right wing loon.
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Forget that, Walnuts are not considered a "drug".
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2018807/Walnuts-DRUGS-FDA-makes-bizarre-claim-seller-says-reduce-risk-heart-disease-cancer.html
I'm pretty sure that this is where things are going. Including how to machine the other parts needed to build the gun, using normal metal shop tools. The real thing is, all the gun laws in the world are useless when you can make your own gun with freely available instructions and common machining tools. At that point, you can ban guns all you want, and the criminals will still make / get them.
And Bob Costas can suck an egg.
The moment you limit liberties for the "general good" you're falling into the trap of tyrants and dictators.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
And people make fun of Sarah Palin. Kucinich is a nut job, he is just left wing enough that leftwingers ignore much his nuttiness.
I have cousins in France, and your assessment is 100% in error. They want what we have in the US, but are unwilling to risk the change from Universal Health Care. We in the US have the best health care facilities and doctors in the world, just not everyone has access to them because of $$.
No, but they don't always get the latest greatest medical developments found in the US either. MRIs still take months to get in Canada, you really want to be on waiting list for everything?
All they need is a judge who doesn't believe in science because they personally "know better."
That works for all sorts of things, doesn't it? Gay Marriage, Snails in canals in California, bugs in trees, owls, global warming .... All we need is one judge to rule them all.
I would get a UoP (or other) degree if for one thing and one thing only. To check off "College Graduate" off the form, to get by Personnel Department check list to the people actually making the decisions. AND I would tell the interviewer the same, if he asked. However, I'm lucky enough to not had to at this point in time. But I am considering a move up into management and that almost seems like a "must have" regardless of the rest of my skills set.
"If they're idiots, why is it that health care with lots of government involvement has better patient outcomes for lower costs?"
Complete and utter lack of free market would have better care and results at lower costs. Lasik eye surgery is one such micro economic example. The cost is not borne by Insurance and you can have excellent care, at a definitively affordable price in just about any city in the USA. The US health care system is rife with inefficiencies of Insurance and regulation that places like Canada and England don't have. Case in point, Walnuts were just classified a "drug" by the FDA because of healthful benefits proven by professional studies, and you can't advertise those benefits unless you're a drug company.
REAL Food is healthy for you and can cure disease, but you can't advertize it. Health Care industry is screwed.
Attempts at remedy are also not fair. But that doesn't stop a whole bunch of people from trying to fix it, repeatedly, trying to remedy the new "unfairness" that crops up.
When my kids were young, they would cry "That's Not Fair" with the best of them. That all ended, when I took them to the children's cancer ward at the hospital, and said ... "Life is not fair, anyone telling you that life should be fair is a liar and a thief. Don't trust anything they say, and watch your wallet".
I have yet to have someone explain to me how "life is fair" economically, politically, or otherwise. ALL the fairness we have is how we treat each other. Outcomes are not certain, and that is not fair. How we react to outcomes, is how you measure a man.
When I sit at a poker table, and I see an sucker (not me), it is boring. Taking money from suckers is not my idea of fun, and poker is a stupid way to let a sucker depart from his cash. No, I'd much rather be the sucker at the poker table, because at least i can learn from the experience.
That phrase is over played and nuanced in ways that most people over playing it don't really understand. When I sit at a table, and I don't see a sucker, I know I'm in good company, even if I am the sucker.
by Idiot, I mean people who want politics involved in heath care decisions, then complain and whine about healthcare being politicized. They are idiots because they want their cake and eat it too. If you want politics involved, you have no right to complain when politics are involved. I don't understand why this isn't clear. Either have politics involved, or don't. But don't complain when you can't have it both ways, they are mutually exclusive. This is a binary choice. I know that plenty of people think they can "nuance" this point, but really that is just naive.
The problem with your premise, is not everything needs be political, and some things should never be politicized. Functioning democracy doesn't need to butt into my personal life on every damn issue, be it (R) right wingers or (D) Left wingers dictating life choices to everyone else.
Government should be involved in privacy protection, but we don't need more laws for protecting privacy. What we need is an informed electorate that understands its rights and demands them from the people that serve them, government or private party. The fact that people can and think it is okay to sell this kind of info is telling that we have a bigger problem than "privacy". We have a problem with basic understanding of how responsible people behave in society.
So, what you're saying is, one of two things. 1) All life is precious and needs to be preserved, being all life is equal, from Bacteria/Virus to Human, and thus we shouldn't kill anything or 2) All life is not precious, some forms are more precious (valuable) than others, and thus we should be able to kill anything not valuable to us.
So which side are you on?
It already is a political issue, the moment the idiots wanted politics involved in HealthCare. Don't want politics involved, then stop involving politics. This is the full problem of centralizing decision making away from the people.
So, when does life begin? If you're gonna be all "sciency", come up with a definition based on science as to when life begins.
On the otherhand, there is this joke. A priest, a minister and a rabbi are all arguing over when life begins. The Priest declares with certainty in his voice, "Life begins at Conception". The minister quickly chimes in, with equal certainty, "Life begins when the baby is born". The rabbi, quiet for most of the discussion, pips, "You putzes, life begins when the dog has died and the children move out!"
I've been watching a few shows on TV lately, and I can tell you, there is a huge underground economy that is pure cash. People buy and sell things for cash, making sometimes large profits without a single government trace on the transaction. I'm 100% sure these people do not pay the taxes on purchases and income that they should be, all because the transaction is 100% under the table, cash only business.
how about adding 10 and 20 and 50 coins then ;)
Actually, I propose a Decimal Shift. Make $.10 (dime, ten cents etc) and make it the new "penny", just by shifting the decimal point over to the left one digit. Have the new coinage set, new paper currency ready, and give people one month to change out all their old coins and dollars bills. Ten Pennies fo the new penny;.
I like fifths ... Jack, Jim, Jose ...
There is no Trust Fund, the money doesn't exist, and all we have is an IOU. The trust fund is nothing more than fraud covering up the ponzi scheme
I'm a Libertarian. Parts of me are happy with liberals, part of me is happy with conservatives. Problem is, nobody is checking the liberals abuses of Liberties, because they (Media) are all in the tank for the (D) party, save for Faux Snews. BTW, I don't watch Fox, or any MSM news. I prefer my news raw, unedited, before bias is applied.
Here is the photo they released ...
http://milesobrien.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/10-marvin-the-martian.jpg
WordPress? ;)
Joomla is fine for smallish sites. 6000 people in a community is smallish. Drupal is powerful sure enough, but I've found that power also includes (unwanted) complexity. I didn't recommend Wordpress, because I don't really count that as a CMS, though it has CMSy features.
I've used Joomla, WebGUI, Drupal, Wordpress, and even a few Forum (old school) systems as a "website" framework. Each has advantages.
You mean, in the late 40's and early 50s after we destroyed the industrial base of Europe and Japan? You criticize me for using "recent past", I'll criticize you for using "not so recent past". Ideology is how you see the world.
Of course, even Kennedy knew that lowering taxes was good for the economy. But by today's standard, you'd call him a right wing loon.